THE LIFE OF BISHOP VALPY FRENCH.* THERE is something of a parallel to be drawn between Valpy French and Henry Martyn. Both were fired by a consuming zeal for missionary work....

LONDON: NOVEMBER 2, 1895.

sojourn in Uganda is for the most part an account of " how we fought ICabarega," as stated on the title-page. Immediately on his arrival in Uganda, the author began to organise...

very far indeed from saying too much—has been given to the study of archwology, and many important facts have been ascertained calculated to throw light on the condition of...

WITH the present state of Italy before our eyes, it is difficult to read without sadness the always fascinating story of her birth as a nation. And this feeling must be very...

MR. SEEBOHM'S new volume is intended to form part of a larger essay dealing with the history of Tribal Society. The book before us describes the structure of such a system, as...

JOHN RUSSELL was born at Guildford in 1745, just late enough, that is, for a capable youth launched upon por- trait-painting to float prosperously, and without original effort,...

FANCY AND FACT.* THESE old stories, which have charmed a hundred generations or more, have to be retold for the new-comers. The old will still prefer the manner known to their...

THOUGH this volume hardly comes into the class which we commonly describe as " gift-books," it will serve admirably for a gift. The fact is that fresh-water fishing becomes...

and Co.)—The volume is divided into two sections- " Young Men of the Bible," and " Young Women of the Bible "- all the essays or sermons numbering twenty. Some of the sub- jects...

Conversion of the Surrey Border" is as good a piece of work as Miss Bramston has ever done,—in this line at least. She has a quite unusual success in making these remote and...

might give an expressive title to this book by saying that it shows " the Gospel at work." " It is of the essence of the Christian religion," says the author in her preface,...

is really entertaining and suitable to children in this little book ; but we doubt, as we have often occasion to doubt in noticing publications of this kind, whether young minds...

of The Poets' Bible, selected and edited by W. Garrett Horder (Ward, Lock, and Bowden). The "Old Testament Section " has reached a second, the "New Testament Section" a third...

" hero " is a New England lad, who goes to sea in a whaler and distinguishes himself by various brave deeds, and especially by refusing to drink the liquor which a wicked...

School Union.)—Mr. Mundell, who has already given us " Stories of the Fire Brigade " and " Lifeboat," now does justice to another and not less meritorious kind of heroic effort....

Mr. Paget, Vicar of Pixton, comes home and finds his wife with a bad headache. "I hope the servants have not been worrying you," he says. That is expressed naturally enough. But...

how a workman in the Black Country, getting himself mixed up with Socialists, Anarchists, or Nihilists—it is not quite clear which, but they are busy with making bombs— falls...

—Mr. Oscar Browning has followed up his valuable book, " Guelphs and Ghibellines," with another work which will take a not less important place of its own. It is a " Short...

By Percy Fitzgerald. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Percy Fitzgerald begins with an account of the first edition of the " Imitatio Christi " (printed by Gunther Zainer at Augsburg), and...

MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—This is the book of an expert, and it would probably be difficult, if not impossible, to find another expert qualified to criticise it. We must be...

be mentioned together. Gertrude's Lover, by Christabel R. Coleridge, is a tale of that lower middle-class life which Miss Coleridge has a special gift for drawing. Rupert...

happy knack of telling a sea-story with all the innumerable details that are so fascinating to a lover of ships and the sea, and add to the pleasure of those who do not know a...

Norris. (R.T.S.)— A pretty story is Nadya, with some attractive local colouring of Russian village life and the persecution of the Stundists. Part of the story is laid in a...

Delavan Perry. (Macmillan and Co.)—. This will be found an interesting and valuable work, not only for the information which it gives, but also for the contrasts which it...

The Land of the Muskeg. By H. Somers Somerset. (W. Heine- mann.)—A " muskeg " is, as we understand from Mr. Somerset, a green bog of a very treacherous kind, such as is not...

(Downey and Co.)—These twenty-nine short stories are, on the whole, favourable specimens of their class. We do not understand the present fondness for this kind of thing. Still,...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—The " Manse " is a favourite preserve, so to speak, of writers of fiction. The tale before us differs from the majority of its fellows, and differs, in...

Stormonth. New Edition. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This dic- tionary, " Pronouncing, Etymological, and Explanatory," has taken so definite a place among standard books of reference...

(Smith and Elder.)—The Bishop of Stepney republishes some papers which he contributed some years ago to the Alpine Club Journal, and others published in the National Review and...

and Co.)—Mr. Gibson in his interesting book is the first to set forth the charms of tobogganing. The humble amuse- ment which we engage in on rare occasions in England is abso-...

Sons.)—This "Tale of the White Christ" belongs to the time when the new faith is struggling to drive out the old. The Norse warriors find it especially hard to accept the...

—There is something of the/ autobiographical in these sketches, and something also that is evidently portraiture from the life. It wants the completeness that art gives. The...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This " book for boys," written in substance, we gather from the preface, by a boy, is translated, the title-page informs us, from the "158th...

see something of the effects of "popular control." Already we know a little about it. Probably the worst-managed schools in England are the smaller Board-schools. It is...

Ellacombe's "Gloucestershire Garden" is low (about 90 ft. above sea-level), and is sheltered by the Cotswolds on the east, and more distantly by the Mendips on the south. The...

The good people prosper; the bad come to grief. It is doubtful whether our statesmen will profit by the wisdom taught on the subject of Fair-trade, &c; but the compiler of a...

Arranged by James Knowles. (F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Knowles first published these " Legends " five and thirty years ago under the initials "J. T. K." The book went through seven...

Rivin g ton meets, after a lon g interval, the hero of her youth ; loves him, fi g hts with success a g ainst the love, and when it re- turns upon her in force sees that the man...

hi g hly recommend to teachers, of " Animal Life Readers," edited by Harrison Weir and Ernest Bell, with pictures by Harrison Weir and others. The volumes before us are :-Dick...

Bayfield Roberts. (Church Printin g Company.)-This book tells the story of what the En g lish Church Union has done or striven to do durin g the last five-and-twenty years. The...

dis- approve. This being so, she gets much g ood from a story which her old nurse tells of her own youth. Unfortunately, the story is told in Somersetshire dialect, which is, to...

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in London on Monday ; and if there were any chance of their being carried out, they would probably ameliorate the condition of the Christians. Their main principle is that the...

A WAVE of depression, almost of alarm, is sweeping over all the Bourses of Europe, even Consols on Thursday sinking a half per cent. In Vienna and Paris speculators are selling...

places, continue to come in, and it is evident that a series of dragonnades has been resolved on either by the Palace or the Mussulman community. The routine is to send an...

consent, as it dreaded the interpellations on Madagascar. The immediate occasion, however, was the refusal, on Monday, of the Minister of Justice to prosecute the Senators,...

is now to be called, has allowed the British Envoy to re- turn in safety to the coast,—a point on which some apprehen- sion was entertained. He has, however, rejected the...

case.

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formed a purely Radical Cabinet, in which M. Cavaignac as Minister of War, M. Lockroy as Minister of Marine, M. Doumer as Minister of Finance, and M. Ricard as Minister of...

Wednesday, took the same general line. He suggested, for the comfort of Lord Rosebery and his colleagues, that the defeat of Lord Rosebery's Government might not have been...

Maud, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales, is betrothed to her cousin, Prince Charles, second son of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and until his brother marries, next in...

farewell letter to the Army. He has held his great post as Commander-in-Chief for thirty-nine years, and now quits it, he says, "with the deepest sorrow and regret." He desires...

a Recess Committee of all parties who wish to co-operate for the benefit of Ireland, in spite of Mr. Justin McCarthy's snub. Besides Mr. Plunkett himself, the Lord Mayor of...

the Duke of Devonshire on the same day spoke at Leeds, both to the same general effect. Lord Salisbury, however, though he admitted that the Protectionists had been quite wrong...

pleasant and lively sketch of the late Lord Waterford, whose tragic death last week, under some momentary access of profound depression, has caused so deep a regret both in...

the number of Irish Magistrates made by Mr. Morley during his two years and a half of office. It appears that he made 750 Magistrates. Of these 276 were farmers. The religious...

of the London School Board on the motion of Mr. Diggle, all the Moderates and three of the Progressives voting for his election. The greater number of the Progressives did not...

address on " Legal Education " at the hall of Lincoln's Inn, —the occasion for the speech being the throwing open of the lectures of the Council of Legal Education to the...

as we reported, that the Russians had obtained from the Chinese a treaty enabling their warships to use Port Arthur, and leasing to them the lands required for two branch...

County Council to pass a resolution intended, as far as possible, to prevent country firms getting London contracts, —i.e., Mr. Holland wanted to protect London labour from...

grant a site for the erection of the statue of Cromwell, which an anonymous donor—believed to be Lord Rosebery—is having made by Mr. Thornycroft. The Daily Chronicle discusses...

are not in the least disposed to endorse the absurd view of a London doctor that, because a young woman wishes to commit what he, and indeed most other people, regard as "...

New Consols (21) were on Thursday, 107.

most useful of all our charities,—the Metropolitan Asso- ciation for Befriending Young Servants—is still in great need of some £400 to enable them to take full advantage of a...

RUSSIAN ACTION IN CHINA. W E do not understand the attitude of most of our contemporaries towards Russia in the Far East. We cannot imagine why they doubt that Russia is making...

W E need not say that we entirely agree with Lord Salisbury in his judgment that the difficulties in dealing with Turkey are enormous ; that patience is indis- pensable; and...

I T is, of course, a grave misfortune for France that the Chamber turns out the responsible Ministries so rapidly. There have been thirty-eight -since the Re- public was founded...

I N his speech at Watford on Wednesday, over which the Gladstonians try to make merry with rather a melancholy air, Lord Salisbury made a remark on which we wonder that he did...

laying down the scheme under which the Army and the War Department are to be reorganised will, it is rumoured, be published in the course of the next few days. It is greatly to...

increasing power of the Press effects by way of compensation for its many advantages is that it tends to produce a certain hysterical exaggeration of feelings which would...

I N some three hundred of the London churches and chapels, last Sunday was celebrated as " Citizen Sunday." This was done by the delivery of sermons bearing upon some of the...

T HOSE who wish to know what the late Master of Balliol really was, should not content themselves with reading Mr. Lionel Tollemache's very interesting sketch of him, which has...

"N O objection is possible on public grounds to the betrothal of the Princess Maud of Wales to Prince Karl of Denmark, and consequently we congratulate the Royal House on an...

A CORRESPONDENT who is struck by the number of accidents with which the hunting season has opened, writes to ask whether the pleasure of hunting is worth the risk run. He...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,— " An Exile of Erin," in the Spectator of October 19th, referring to the "Recess Committee " which we are trying to form for the...

HELP FOR THE ARMENIANS. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I heartily sympathise with the spirit of " Edna Lyall's " letter in the Spectator of October 26th. The reason...

A VIGNETTE. THE swallow's curve shakes the ambrosial air, :? While tints of sunset fall- upon -the sea ; And, subtay mixed by mixard Memory, Thoughts of rich Yesterdays are...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:9 Ent,—In the Spectator of September 21st I find a well-con- sidered article on Cuban affairs, and send a few brief notes hastily. You mention...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—While fully admitting the spiritual selfishness dis- played by many of the'Eastern ascetics, the following extract shows that the...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The hunting season is setting in severely in the matter of accidents. The maiming and deaths of hunting men and women are enough to...

MR. LILLY'S HUMOURISTS.* Tun book is misnamed. Mr. Lilly scarcely deals with humourists as humourists, at all. It should be called " The Non-Htimourous Aspects of Four English...

right to a place among heroes, either of the real or the romantic kind. A memoir of him has already been written, and yet we fancy that his name is far from being familiarly...

a rather melancholy note of the lapse of time. It is many years now since the first appearance of Hans Breitmann introduced us to the peculiar accent and spelling which are...

THERE are a few books about which the verdict is unanimou', and criticism, except in the form of a gentle puff at the universal bellows of praise, is silent,— " Happy work !...

Christian dogma is the fore- most representative in Germany of a theory of Christianity which professes to reconcile the older evangelical faith with the methods, and with some...

Longman's Gazetteer of the World. (Longman.) — This magni- ficent volume of nearly two thousand quarto pages must have cost a fortune and almost endless labour to produce ; and...

having quarrelled with her engaged lover, whom she supposes to be indifferent to her, marries a China- man, Len-Ching by name. That is a situation which admits of the piling up...

Arthur H. Loring and B. J. Beadon. (Longman.)—This volume contains Lord Brassey's contributions to the discussion of two great subjects,—" Imperial Federation" and...

of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. Edited by Marcus B. Huish. (Privately printed.)—This volume, with its beautiful illustrations, produced most successfully by the Autotype Company,...

Catharine Parr Traill. With Biographical Sketch by Mary Agnes Fitz- gibbon. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a volume of Canadian origin, and deals with Canadian...

A. J. de Villiers. (Chatto and Windus.)—This " romance," founded on the play by Messrs. Sardou and Moreau, is a very brisk and spirited tale of the Napoleon days. It begins with...